Whip-socket



(No Model.)

F. A. BRADLEY.

WHIB SOCKET.

Patented Peb. 5

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@maga UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK A. BRADLEY, oF NEW IIAvEN, CONNECTICUT.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,977, dated February5, 1854.

ADDlicaticn led Noyezulnr 26,1583. (No model.)

To LZ/ whoml it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDII. A. BRADLEY, of New Haven, in the countyY ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inWhip-Sockets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to bea full,

clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawingsconstitute part of this specication, and represent, inv

Figure l, a front View; Fig. 2, a vertical central section; Fig. 3, amodification.V Y

This invention relates to an improvement in whip-sockets, with specialreference to their attachment to carriages. Sockets have usually beenattached, in the better class of carriages, to lugs made on thedash-frame; but objections have been made on account of the time andtrouble to t t-heleather around the lugs, and also because of thedifficulty to secure the sockets firmly.

The object of my invention is to overcome these difficulties, and make asocket which can be readilyT attached to any carriage without connectionwith the dash-frame; audit consists in the construction of the socketfirmly uni-ted to ametal base, and secured to the carriage by a singlebolt passing` vertically 'through the bottom of the socket and holder,

which bolt serves as a means for securing the socket, as more fullyhereinafter described.

A represents a common wooden socket; B, the cup-shaped holder or baseinto which the socket is placed, and C the bolt through the bottom ofthe socket and holder.

I make the interior diameter of the cup part of the holder Ba verylittle less than the diameter of 4the socket A, so that considerablepressure will be required to force the socket into the holder. Beforeforcing the socket into the holder, I line the interior of the` cup withwhite lead, or any equivalent substance, so that, when the socket isforced into the cup,

they become .substantially one and the same piece. After the parts havebeen thus united, a bolt, C, is passed verticallythrough the bottom ofthe socket and base, and screw-threade on its lower end, to receive anut, E.

To secure the socket to the carriage, simply make a hole for thebolt--say in the rocker D, or at the point it is desired to be secured;then pass the bolt through the hole, and apply the nut, as shown in Fig.2. The head of the bolt, taking its bearing upon the bottom ofthesocket, draws the socket and base so firmly t0- gether that the lining;of the white lead in the cup may be dispensed with, and the interiordiameter of the cup made the same or greater than theu diameter of thesocket.

I preferably make the holder B a malleable iron, it being cast with thehole through the center for the bolt to pass.

In order to allow the'water which may fall into the socket to pass oft',I make perforations f around the bottom of the socket, as seen in Fig.2; or it may be accomplished. by using a hollow bolt, g, as seen in Fig.3.

In case it should be desired to secure the socket from a point at rightangles to the socket, instead of directly below it, the securing devicesmay be made fast to or made a part of the socket7 extending radiallyfrom the socket. It that casev the bolt will be shortened, so that theend will bear directly against the bottom ofthe base, and thus bind thesocket firmly to the base. Y

The combination of the socket A, the metal base B, constructed toreceive the` lower end ofthe socket, and the bolt C through the bot-

